Cuff-holder.



No. 78,868. Patented Nov. l8, I902.

H. C. FRANK.

CUFF HOLDER.

(Application filed Mar. 6, 1902.

(No Model.)

Wiineweaw 1720627182?- NlTlElD TATES arnir HENRY O. FRANK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,868, dated November 18, 1902.

Application filed March 6,1902. Serial No. 96,893. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. FRANK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gufi-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cuff-holders, and has for its object to provide an improvement in a cufiholder having a shank and a hook hinged thereto for engaging the adjacent flaps of a cuff, whereby the flaps will be retained upon the hook against unintentional removal therefrom.

My invention further consists in a cuffholder comprising a shank, a hook hinged thereto for engaging the adjacent flaps of a cuff, and a lug or ear arranged to prevent the unintentional removal of the flaps from the hook.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an outside View of portions of the adjacent flaps of a cuff with myimproved cuff-holder attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a partial vertical longitudinal section through the same, taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the cuff-holder.

The portions of the flaps of a cuff represented herein are denoted by 1 and 2 and their buttonholes by 3 and at.

The shank of the cuff-holder is denoted by 5, and it is provided at its lower end with a spring-clasp 6, which may be of any wellknown or approved construction, that shown herein comprising a pair of spring-actuated jaws, one of the jaws having a felt pad 7 and the other jaw having an inwardly-turned portion 8, fitted to engage the said pad. A cuffretaining hook is hinged to the upper end of the shank, and it comprises an outwardly-extended portion 9, a laterally-extended portion 10, and an inwardly-extended portion. The inner end of the portion 9 is hinged upon a pintle 12, mounted in the upper bifurcated ends 13 and 14 of the shank 5. The hook is yieldingly held closed by means of a spring-tongue 15, extended from the shank, between the arms 13 and 14 thereof, with its free end in engagement with the hinged end of the said hook. A lug or ear 16 is struck up from the outer end of the laterally-extended portion 10 of the hook. The lug or ear 16 is preferably in alinement with the inwardly-extended portion 11 of the hook, so as to facilitate the insertion and removal of the hook with relation to the cuif, and the said lug or ear is not of sufficient size to materially affect the said insertion and removal of the hook.

When the two flaps l and 2 of the cult have been engaged with the laterally-extended portion 10 of the hook, the lug or ear 16 will serve to prevent the unintentional removal of the flaps from the hook. Before the lug was provided one or both of the flaps of the cuff would at times become released from the hook by sliding 01f the horizontal portion 10 thereof, thus causing considerable discomfort to the wearer.

lVhat I claim is l. Acuif-holdercomprisingashankhaving means for attaching the shank to a sleeve, a hook hinged to the shank fitted to engage the two flaps of a cuff, the said hook having an outwardly-extended portion, a laterally-extended portion and an inwardly-extended portion, and a small lug or ear of less width than the body of the hook and projecting outwardly from the outer end of the laterally-extended portion of the hook for preventing the unintentional removal of the flaps of the end from the hook.

2. A cuff-holder comprising a shank having means for attaching the shank to a sleeve, a hook hinged to the shank fitted to engage the two flaps of a cuff, the said hook comprising an outwardly-extended portion, a laterally extended portion and an inwardly-extended portion, and a lug or ear struck from the hook and of less Width than the body of the hook and projecting outwardly from the outer end of the laterally-extended portion of the hook in alinement with the inwardlyextended portion for facilitating the positive insertion and removal of the hook and for preventing the unintentional release of the flaps of the cuff from the hook.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in pres ence of two witnesses, this. 3d day of March, 1902.

HENRY O. FRANK.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, HENRY THIEME. 

